Prioritize
/pɹaɪˈɒɹətaɪz/ verb
verb ·Moderate ·High school level
Definitions
Verb
- 1 To value, do, or choose something first, or before other things. transitive
"When I don't have time to buy everything at the store, I prioritize fresh fruit and vegetables over foods like rice or noodles."
- 2 assign a priority to wordnet
- 3 To arrange or list a group of things in order of priority or importance. intransitive, transitive
- 4 To rank something as having high priority. transitive
Example
More examples"When your resources are limited, you have to prioritize."
Etymology
From priority + -ize. First attested in 1967 as U.S. government jargon, becoming more widespread through the 1970s and ’80s, but still denounced as officialese by purists into the 1990s.